Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
WILLIAM FAULKNERPeople to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it.
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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat…nor make love for eight hours…
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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
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The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.
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I think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try until it comes right.
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A fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he’s already got. He’ll cling to trouble he’s used to before he’ll risk a change.
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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.
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The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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